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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Jul 2019
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    “The hours are good but the minutes are lousy” “The days go slowly but the years go quickly” Any other such folk wisdom or quotes reflecting time-scale separation effects in time perception?

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      2. Brian Duffy‏ @brianduffytweet 31 Jul 2019
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        “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” - unconfirmed but likely Einstein quote

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Jul 2019
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        This is confirmed. It’s from an actual paper he wrote in the 30s I believe

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      2. James Stuber‏ @uberstuber 31 Jul 2019
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        This book is a decent stab at ithttps://sivers.org/book/TimeParadox …

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Jul 2019
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        Yeah I’ve read it. It’s okay. Not great

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      2. R_Ganesh‏ @r_ganesh 31 Jul 2019
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        I have come across in different places the concept of "slowly slowly then suddenly" (from something Hemingway said IIRC) has positive and negative applications

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Jul 2019
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        Hemingway version of that is the famous one yeah, how do you go bankrupt? Slowly at first then all at once

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      1. Trishanku's Heaven‏ @TrishankusH 31 Jul 2019
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        “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”

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      2. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 31 Jul 2019
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        pic.twitter.com/fccUwjnE7x

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        Oh wow, who is that? Undying intellectual passion for vagueness here.

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        “I saw my life flash before my eyes”

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